iPhone as hotel room key? Good idea says tech chief

Barbara De Lollis, USA TODAY

NEW YORK, USA:Holiday Inn next month will begin testing technology that lets you convert your iPhone into your room key - but several readers said they're too skeptical to try it.

"No thank you, I'll stick with my room key in my hand," Hotel Check-In reader LOfromMO wrote on Monday's post. "Anything electronic can be hacked or otherwise compromised."

Given the number of questions raised about the technology (see Hotel Check-In's story from last week), I asked the technology company's CEO to discuss some of the common concerns he hears. Open Ways Pascal Metivier said the technology's safe.

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